gen-stat raises "bad sfntVersion"
guidoferreyra opened this issue · 2 comments
guidoferreyra commented
When trying to patch STAT I get this issue. I’ve also seen this issue in fontbakery with some VF fonts built on glyphs. Any ideas?
This is the error log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/guidoferreyra/fbenv/bin/gftools", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/Users/guidoferreyra/fbenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gftools/scripts/__init__.py", line 98, in main
mod.main(args[2:])
File "/Users/guidoferreyra/fbenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gftools/scripts/gen_stat.py", line 66, in main
fonts = [TTFont(f) for f in args.fonts]
^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/guidoferreyra/fbenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/ttFont.py", line 174, in __init__
self.reader = SFNTReader(file, checkChecksums, fontNumber=fontNumber)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/guidoferreyra/fbenv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/fontTools/ttLib/sfnt.py", line 85, in __init__
raise TTLibError("Not a TrueType or OpenType font (bad sfntVersion)")
fontTools.ttLib.TTLibError: Not a TrueType or OpenType font (bad sfntVersion)
FWIW, this is how sfntVersion looks on the curren font
<ttFont sfntVersion="\x00\x01\x00\x00" ttLibVersion="4.50">
= 0x00010000
simoncozens commented
Something was in the command line which was not a font.
Did you say
gftools-gen-stat stat.yml myfont.ttf
instead of
gftools-gen-stat --src stat.yml my font.ttf
?
guidoferreyra commented
🤦
Thanks @simoncozens